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Évolution

  • 20152015
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Évolution (2015)
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The only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all... Read allThe only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?The only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?
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    • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
    • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
    • Alante Kavaite
    • Geoff Cox(in collaboration with)
  • Stars
    • Marta Blanc
    • Max Brebant
    • Roxane Duran
    • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
    • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
    • Alante Kavaite
    • Geoff Cox(in collaboration with)
  • Stars
    • Marta Blanc
    • Max Brebant
    • Roxane Duran
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    • 51User reviews
    • 101Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
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    Marta Blanc
    • Nurse
    Max Brebant
    Max Brebant
    • Nicolas
    Roxane Duran
    Roxane Duran
    • Stella
    Julie-Marie Parmentier
    Julie-Marie Parmentier
    • La mère
    Mathieu Goldfeld
    • Victor
    Nissim Renard
    • Franck
    Pablo-Noé Etienne
    • Le 4e garçon
    Nathalie Legosles
    • Le docteur
    • (as Nathalie Le Gosles)
    Chantal Aimée
    Laura Ballesteros
    Eric Batlle
    Mafer Blanco
    Anna Broock
    Celestino Chacon
    Annie Enganalim
    Silvia Ferre
    Imma Ferrer
    Ulrika Garcia
      • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
      • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
      • Alante Kavaite
      • Geoff Cox(in collaboration with)
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    • Trivia
      Lucile Hadzihalilovic based the movie on the experience she had when she was 10 and went to a hospital to get her appendix removed.
    • Quotes

      Nicolas: Why am I sick?

      La mère: Because at your age your body is changing and weakening.

      Nicolas: Like lizards?

      La mère: In a way. Like lizards or crabs. When they molt, they're very fragile.

      [pause]

      Nicolas: And starfish?

      La mère: They only change once, at birth.

      Nicolas: And afterwards?

      La mère: Afterwards... a new cycle begins.

      [pause]

      La mère: A new life.

    • Connections
      Featured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
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      Concerto pour ondes Martenot, II - adagio allegro
      Composed by Marcel Landoswki

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    6/10
    A beautiful horror film
    After watching the film I read some interviews with the writer/director Lucile Hadžihalilović and she mentioned how it had taken her a long time to get funding for this film. Never have I been less surprised. Not creepy enough to be a full blown horror film and too creepy to just be a pure art film.

    The film is about a young pre-pubescent boy named Nicolas who lives on a remote island with his mother, several other women and other young boys around his age. He is told he is sickly by his mother and urged to eat a really wicked looking blue creation for his "health" and eventually has to go to a hospital where he is repeatedly operated on.

    I won't spoil the movie, but Hadžihalilović isn't one for jump scares and Nicolas's illness and the reason for his hospital visits are made clear very early on. It all unfolds in a creepy atmospheric way so that the audience is aware of the bad things that are going on before Nicolas is, though he too learns the secret behind his illness soon enough.

    The movie is very beautifully filmed with lots of stunning shots of the water and the seaside. However one thing I take issue with is how dark some of the shots were. Maybe it was the fault of the distributor for not cleaning up the shots but there are some nightime scenes where instead of being frightened I was merely confused because the screen looked pitch black.

    Nevertheless the movie is very easy to follow on and the ultimate story and horror is pretty simple.

    I'm not a horror fan so this was not really a movie for me, but for art fans who are looking for a slow scare, this might be for you.
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    • Dec 26, 2016

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    • Why are starfish and starfish shapes so ubiquitous?

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      • November 25, 2016 (United States)
      • France
      • Belgium
      • Spain
      • Official site (Japan)
      • French
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      • Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Worso
      • Noodles Production
      • Volcano Films
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    • 1 hour 21 minutes
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